Cost management of building constructions and works through knowledge-based database

Abstract

Civil engineering represents an important economical segment. Higher pressure on raising effectiveness, productivity and automation is perceived in society. An important factor that influence raise of effectiveness and productivity is cooperation support between participants of building sector. Individual participants are connected between each other and they are allowed to gain, collect, share, rate and use available information's in required quality and required time. For this purpose, a lot of supporting tools are created and these dispose with automation features, such as knowledge system or knowledge database. One of the most important processes in building's life-cycle is cost setting through the whole life-cycle. Correct cost setting is an important indicator in deciding about size, shape, equipment and also on building realization itself. In building's life-cycle, besides economical aspect that is represented by costs connected with individual life-cycle phases, it's also important to consider other parameters that greatly influence building method and using or disposal of the building. This article, based on mentioned facts, brings a proposal of methods and structure to create knowledge database, that brings user a tool that dispose with information's needed for deciding about construction solution of future building and allows to manage costs for building operations and building works.